Palin promises to come back for a week

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband Todd concluded their brief first visit to Israel on Monday by meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at his official residence in Jerusalem.

In private conversations, she vowed to return soon – for a full week – and said she would meet with more politicians and the media then.

J Street officials, who are in Israel for a meeting of the Knesset
Diaspora Affairs Committee, complained on Monday that Netanyahu had
refused a request to meet with them but had chosen to meet with Palin.

The
left-wing American lobby’s president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, said he had
wanted to meet with Netanyahu “to introduce ourselves and explain how we
can work together as allies.”

Ben-Ami wrote in a letter that
“while the Prime Minister doesn’t have time to meet a movement that now
represents over 170,000 pro- Israel, pro-peace supporters, he has time
to host Sarah Palin for dinner.”